TODAY'S NEWS (December.15.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Remark of director general of Japan Defence Agency
* South side's delegation feted
* Photo exhibition and film show held
* Review of six months after adoption of June 15 inter-Korean joint
declaration
* Concert wins acclaim
* DPRK praised by British political figure
* Improper attitude of U.S. denounced
* U.S. anti-personnel mines massively laid
For Spanish-speaking people
* balance de 6 meses posteriores a la publicacion de la declaracion
conjunta norte-sur
* acto conjunto de participantes en gran simposio de obreros de norte y
sur de corea
Remark of director general of Japan Defence Agency
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Director general of the Japan Defence
Agency Saito at a press
interview underscored the "need to increase Japan's military capability,"
asserting that "North Korea is
maintaining and strengthening its military muscle."
In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary observes:
Saito's utterance reflects evil practices of the Japanese reactionaries
to justify their wrongdoings by
faulting others.
It is the Japanese reactionaries who justify their militarist moves by
hurling mud at others, the
commentary notes, and goes on:
Their call for "increased military capability" under the pretext of
"threat from North Korea" is just like a
thief crying "stop the thief."
The threat of war and destruction is coming not from the DPRK but from
Japan to the Korean peninsula.
The enactment of the law related to a war which restores the right of
belligerency and the right to
participate in a war, expansion of armaments, deployment of "Self-Defence
Forces" in the western area and
frequent military exercises staged under the simulated conditions of an
"emergency on the Korean peninsula"
and so on clearly indicate what Japan seeks in its moves.
What the Japanese reactionaries are now doing only adds to the crimes
committed in the past.
The Korean people will bear this in mind and surely force them to pay
for them.
South side's delegation feted
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Senior councilor of the DPRK cabinet
Jon Kum Jin, head of the
north side's delegation to the north-south ministerial talks, hosted a
reception at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel
yesterday for the south side's delegation to the fourth round of the talks.
Invited to the reception were members of the south side's delegation
headed by Unification Minister Pak
Jae Gyu.
Present there were Jang Jae On, chairman of the central committee of
the DPRK Red Cross Society,
Song Sok Hwan, vice-Minister of Culture, Kim Jong Ung, vice-Minister of
Public Health, Choe Yun Sik,
vice-chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, officials concerned
and members of the north
side's delegation.
Speeches were made at the reception.
Photo exhibition and film show held
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Trade
arranged a photo exhibition
and film show on December 14 to mark the 9th anniversary of the great
leader Kim Jong Il's election as
Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 83rd birth
anniversary of the great communist
revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
Invited there were economic and trade officials of various embassies in
Pyongyang.
The participants looked round photos showing the energetic external
activities conducted by Kim Jong Il
to bring about a turning phase of the struggle for the country's
reunification and the final victory of the
Korean revolution.
Also on display were photos on the Korean people's proud achievements
made in the efforts to glorify
the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea as a grand festival of
victors.
The participants watched a documentary film on the on-site guidance
given by Kim Jong Il to
revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.
Review of six months after adoption of June 15 inter-Korean joint
declaration
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Six months after the historic
Pyongyang meeting and the
publication of the north-south joint declaration evidently show who, in
Korea, truly hopes for reconciliation,
unity, peace and reunification and has been faithful to the joint
declaration and who has been seeking to bring
the inter-Korean relations back to confrontation, going against the
declaration.
This is stressed in an article titled "Nothing can stop nation's
advance towards 21st century, century of
independence and reunification" published six months after the adoption of
the declaration.
The article says:
In the past six months the North Korea has made all its possible
efforts with sincerity to smoothly
implement the agreed points clarified in the inter-Korean joint
declaration. But, some political quarters of the
south have engaged themselves in the moves to put the brake on its
implementation.
Citing facts to fully disclose such frantic moves they made to bring
the north-south relations back to the
state of confrontation while opposing the historic Pyongyang meeting and
denying the joint declaration, it
further says:
From the very day the issue of Pyongyang meeting was high on the agenda
they dismissed it as
"premature" or a deed of getting involved in the north's "tactics for
united front."
When the June 15 joint declaration was adopted they denied it,
asserting that it means the south has given
in and played into the north's hands.
Such obstructive moves were manifested more saliently in hamstringing
the basic spirit of the meeting
and the declaration. As soon as the declaration was published they made
much ado about nothing. They
desperately rejected it and more zealously called for "permanent presence
of the U.S. forces" and close
"cooperation in security" and "cooperation system" with their masters. And
they further strengthened the
political and military ties with outsiders while staging with the United
States large-scale joint military
exercises such as "Ulji Focus Lens" and "Foal Eagle".
Some quarters in South Korea also denied the provision of the joint
declaration on reunifying the country
by federal and confederal formulas. Arguing that acceptance of the north's
lower stage of federation means
concession of the "liberal-democratic system," they have held that this
reunification formula should never be
accepted.
The separatists including the right-wing conservative forces of South
Korea threw obstacles in the way
of smooth progress of dialogue, contacts, cooperation and exchange between
the north and the south.
They blocked for no reason visits and contacts between political
parties and organizations and figures
from all walks of life of the north and the south. As far as the
inter-Korean economic cooperation is
concerned, they asserted that "it is just like paying tribute to the north"
and "the principle of reciprocity should
be maintained."
They made it difficult to properly solve such humanitarian issues as
the reunion between separated
families and relatives by staging a money offensive aimed to incite
confrontation between the two systems
and destabilize the other side.
They put up various conditions even on mutual aid between fellow
countrymen in a bid to block it under
the pretext of "transparency."
The right-wing conservative forces of South Korea regard the people in
the north not as compatriots but
as an "enemy."
They defined the north as the "principal enemy" again in a recent
"white paper on national defence." This
was an unpardonable provocation to the north.
Moreover, anti-north meeting and "signature campaign" took place in the
center of Seoul.
The north and the south should not take any different approach to the
implementation of the June 15 joint
declaration, the charter of the nation and the great program for
independence and reunification.
And the ruling and opposition parties and the progressive and
conservative forces should not differ from
each other in this aspect.
The inter-Korean relations and the issue of reunification related to
the destiny of the nation should not be
used by any party as a plaything in a political scramble under any
circumstances, nor should be an object of
jealousy.
If the inter-Korean relations go back to the state of confrontation,
there will be no way to restore them.
No one can block the advance of the Korean nation toward the 21st
century, a century of independence
and reunification.
Concert wins acclaim
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- "People's Artiste Ri Hak Bom Concert"
is now going on at the
East Pyongyang Grand Theatre.
The concert program includes more than 20 pieces of chorus,
instrumental and orchestral works
including theme songs of feature films "A Soldier's Desire" and "Young
Locomotive Engineer."
The concert is performed by renowned singers, instrumentalists and
conductors of the Mansudae Art
Troupe.
The performance is enthusiastically applauded by the audience for high
artistic skills, diverse genre and
rich emotion.
Composer Ri Hak Bom, 62, was born in Yomju county, North Phyongan
Province, in November Juche
27 (1938).
After graduation from Pyongyang University of Music and Dance he
conducted creative activities at the
Mansudae Art Troupe, the Korean Film Studio and other art institutions.
He proved himself to be talented composer by creating at least 160
pieces of orchestral music, concertos,
ensembles, solos and other instrumental music, opera and movie music,
popular songs and juvenile music.
He is a "Kim Il Sung Prize" winner and People's Artiste.
As the head of the Mansudae Art Troupe, he is addressing himself to
creative work with high spirits and
passion.
DPRK praised by British political figure
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The DPRK founded by the President Kim
Il Sung and glorified by
the great leader Kim Jong Il is shining with independent politics and
army-first leadership, said Andy
Brooks, general secretary of the New Communist Party of Great Britain who
had visited the DPRK several
times.
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are the great leaders of independent
politics, he noted. The world history of
politics for the 20th century knows no other great men than them who have
conducted energetic activities for
the country and the people, and national sovereignty and dignity, he said,
and continued:
The independent politics of the DPRK was provided by Kim Il Sung and is
being consolidated and
glorified by Kim Jong Il.
The matchless grit of Kim Jong Il with which to allow no infringement
upon national sovereignty and
dignity even under the pressure and blockade of the allied forces of
imperialists gained much favour in many
countries.
The DPRK, led by Kim Jong Il, great master of independent politics,
will further shine as a bulwark of
socialism.
The independent politics is firmly guaranteed by powerful national
defence capacity.
Kim Jong Il is leading the revolution and construction to victory with
his army-first politics of
strengthening defence power and giving greater prominence to the army as
the pillars of the revolution.
The reality of the DPRK which is winning victory after victory in
political, ideological and military
confrontation with the imperialists evidently shows that the army-first
politics is a treasured sword for
defending socialism.
As long as the Korean people and people's army are led by Kim Jong Il's
superb army-first politics, they
will as always emerge victorious and build a powerful socialist state
without fail.
Improper attitude of U.S. denounced
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The South Korean newspaper Hangyore
(internet) on December 9
carried an editorial captioned "Why does the U.S. behave so?"
It said:
The U.S. attitude on such pending issues between the U.S. and South
Korea as the revision of the
"Status of Forces Agreement" and the probe into the truth of mass killings
of civilians in Rogun-ri is arousing
not just disappointment but indignation.
Noting that the recent ninth round of the negotiations on the revision
of the agreement showed a setback,
far from reaching any agreement, the editorial said that now it has become
difficult for the heads of South
Korea and the U.S. to keep their promise to revise the agreement before the
end of Clinton's term of office.
It went on:
The U.S. is not ready to revoke the unequal preferential treatment and
privileges granted to it in the past.
This behavior of the U.S. deserves denunciation as it is a manifestation of
its arrogant great power
chauvinism.
The U.S. also hurt the dignity of the South Korean people as far as the
massacres of civilians in
Rogun-ri are concerned. An investigation team of the U.S. defense
department, while admitting the mass
killings, is going to conclude that they were not perpetrated by order from
the superior but occurred by
accident in confusion.
If the U.S. clinches the mass killings as "accidental cases that
occurred without any order from the
superior" in a bid to evade state responsibility, it will trigger off
protest and indignation of not only the
victims of mass killings in Rogun-ri but all other people. Such unequal
relations between the U.S. and South
Korea can no longer go on.
U.S. anti-personnel mines massively laid
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The United States has 1.2 million
anti-personnel mines laid in
South Korea, according to South Korean "Yonhap News" (internet).
The U.S. is reported to have 1.7 million mines in foreign countries or
more than 10 per cent of its
stockpiled ones, 70 per cent of them in South Korea.
This fact was disclosed by a report presented by a non-governmental
organization "Human Rights
Watch" to the second annual meeting of the countries concerned with the
revised protocol on anti-personnel
mines of the specified conventional weapon convention held in Geneva on
December 11.
For Spanish-speaking people
balance de 6 meses posteriores a la publicacion de la declaracion conjunta
norte-sur
pyongyang, 15 de diciembre (atcc) -- el articulo "es indetenible la
marcha de la nacion hacia el siglo 21 de
la reunificacion independiente" que hace balance de 6 meses posteriores a
la publicacion de la historica
declaracion conjunta norte-sur senala en particular:
han transcurrido 6 meses desde el historico encuentro de pyongyang y la
publicacion de la declaracion
conjunta norte-sur. durante este periodo se ha hecho evidente quien desea
de veras la reconciliacion y la
unidad, la paz y la reunificacion en corea y queda fiel a la declaracion
conjunta del 15 de junio y quien marcha
a contrapelo de esta declaracion tratando de devolver las relaciones
norte-sur al estado de enfrentamiento.
durante los ultimos 6 meses el norte ha hecho todos los esfuerzos
sinceros por cumplir debidamente los
puntos de acuerdo de la declaracion conjunta norte-sur. pero en el sur se
han tornado muy graves las
maniobras de algunas fuerzas politicas encaminadas a poner freno al
cumplimiento de la practica de la
declaracion en cuestion.
desde los primeros dias de la discusion sobre el encuentro ulterior de
pyongyang dichas fuerzas lo
opusieron diciendo que dicho encuentro es "prematuro" y acto favorable a la
"tactica del frente unido" del
norte. despues de aprobada la declaracion conjunta del 15 de junio la
negaron insistiendo que el sur es
rendido y aprovechado por el norte.
las maniobras de dichas fuerzas se han revelado de modo concentrado en
sus actos de castrar y
contravenir a dicho encuentro y el espiritu principal de dicha declaracion.
no bien se publico dicha declaracion ellas armaron alborotos como si
hubiera ocurrido algo grande
rehusandola a todo trance. al mismo tiempo, vociferaron de "permanencia
indefinida de las tropas
norteamericanas", la "cooperacion de seguridad" y la "colaboracion" con su
amo. reforzaron el contubernio
politico y militar con las fuerzas extranjeras al desarrollar las maniobras
de gran tamano junto con ee.uu.
como "ulji focus lance" y "aguilucho".
ellas negaron tambien el articulo de dicha declaracion de promover la
reintegracion del pais por vias de
federacion y conmonwealth. dijeron que la aceptacion del proyecto de
reunificacion por sistema federativo de
la etapa inferior del norte constituye la "concesion del sistema
democratico liberal" y cacarearon que "no se
debe aceptarlo en ningun caso".
las fuerzas conservadoras derechistas y otros elementos opuestos a la
reunificacion de surcorea
obstaculizaron de todas maneras la marcha favorable del dialogo, contacto,
colaboracion e intercambio entre el
norte y el sur.
impidieron injustamente el viaje y el contacto entre los partidos
politicos, entidades y las personalidades
de diversos sectores de ambas partes.
por otra parte, en cuanto a la cooperacion economica norte-sur se la
opusieron diciendo que el sur
"entrega tributo al norte" y es necesaria la "reciprocidad". al inspirar la
confrontacion de regimenes y
desplegar la ofensiva con dinero y articulos costosos para socavar desde
adentro el norte obtaculizaron la
solucion del encuentro de familiares y parientes separados y otros
problemas humanitarios. para colmo,
trataron de frenar hasta la ayuda mutua entre los coreanos hablando de su
"transparencia" bajo tal o cual
condicionamiento.
las fuerzas conservadoras derechistas de surcorea consideran a los
norcoreanos no como compatriotas
sino como enemigos. en la reciente "carta blanca de defensa nacional"
volvieron a estigmatizar al norte como
"enemigo principal".
esto es una grave e intolerable provocacion.
en pleno centro de seul se desarrollan el mitin anti rpdc y la
provocativa "campana de recogida de
firmas".
a continuacion, el articulo subraya:
el norte y el sur, los partidos en poder y de oposicion, las fuerzas
progresistas y las conservadoras deben
juntar sus fuerzas para ejecutar la declaracion conjunta del 15 de junio,
carta de la nacion y gran programa de
la reintegracion independiente. el problema de relaciones norte-sur y de
reunificacion relacionado con el
destino de la nacion no debe ser en todo caso victima de la pelea politica
interna de una parte ni objeto de
celos.
si las relaciones norte-sur vuelven a retornar al enfrentamiento no
habra remedio para recuperarlas.
es indetenible la marcha de la nacion coreana hacia el siglo 21 de la
reunificacion independiente.
acto conjunto de participantes en gran simposio de obreros de norte y sur de
corea
kosong 13 de diciembre (atcc) -- tuvo lugar el dia 13 en el monte
kumgang un acto conjunto de los
participantes en el gran simposio de obreros del norte y el sur de corea
por la reunificacion.
participaron los miembros de las delegaciones de la federacion general
de los sindicatos de corea (fgsc),
la federacion de sindicatos surcoreanos (fss) y la confederacion de
sindicatos surcoreanos (css) participantes
en dicho simposio.
los obreros del norte y el sur participantes en el primer simposio por
la reunificacion manifestaron sus
decisiones de exaltar tambien en el futuro su inteligencia y espiritu y de
desplegar nueva historia de la patria
reunificada con la clara meta de lucha recogiendo el proposito patriotico
por la reunificacion.
demostraron el mismo sentimiento y proposito de la reunificacion de los
obreros del norte y el sur al
entonar las canciones que contienen el credo y la voluntad de los
habitantes coreanos de poner fin a la
penalidad causada por la division y lograr la reunificacion del pais con la
independencia y la gran unidad
nacionales.
los obreros del norte y el sur hicieron bullir el lugar del acto por el
fervor de reunificacion cantando,
bailando y recitando poesias.
con anterioridad los miembros de delegaciones de la parte sur
participantes en el simposio en cuestion
recorrieron el kumgang maritimo y lago samil del monte homonimo y vieron
una funcion acrobatica.
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